Baines Research Group for the Comparative Study of Unfree Labour

The BRG is a Leeds-wide based community of scholars interested in the historical study of the various forms of unfree labour.

The Color of Motherhood: Enslaved Cubans under the First Spanish Republic

Prof Lisa Surwilo (Stanford University)

The British Army and the (poly)genesis of 19th century American race theory

Prof Tim Lockley (University of Warwick)

Edward Baines Jr.

The BRG is named after Edward Baines Jr. (1800-1890), a former Leeds MP, editor of the Leeds Mercury and renowned abolitionist.

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